Full-Time
Director – Partner and Portfolio Sustainability
Posted on 2/28/2025
Enterprise Community Partners
501-1,000 employees
Nonprofit focused on affordable housing solutions
Compensation Overview
$110k - $130k/yr
Senior, Expert
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
Seattle, WA, USA + 9 more
More locations: New Orleans, LA, USA | Washington, DC, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Detroit, MI, USA | Cleveland, OH, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA
The job is hybrid, requiring some in-office presence, but specific in-office days are not mentioned.
- Minimum of 10 years experience in the fields of housing and community development, public and social policy or resident services, public policy, public health, or government.
- Minimum of 5 years of management experience required.
- Expertise in affordable housing finance is required.
- Undergraduate degree required; graduate degree preferred. Graduate degree may substitute for up to two (2) years of experience.
- Experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating social programs.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, including a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and assignments, meet tight deadlines, coordinate and communicate effectively among widely dispersed partners.
- Ability to live in the gray while consistently working towards a collective vision.
- Excellent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent presentation and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in successful cross collaboration among internal and external partners.
- Proven ability to lead and manage staff members – both direct and indirect reports - through effective planning and organizing, decision making, motivating, supervising, and evaluating.
- Demonstrated experience in managing budgets and the efficient use of financial resources.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of time.
- Work closely with both internal and external high-capacity leaders in the affordable housing sector to develop and deliver a multi-faceted and integrative program to stabilize the organizational capacity of developers and their housing portfolios.
- Build an intake and assessment implementation process for TA provision and deployment of grants and capital for the Program.
- Coordinate procurement and management of a network of consultants and TA providers who have deep local knowledge in relevant markets.
- Develop an internal roadmap of expertise within Enterprise and strategies for leveraging and sustaining technical assistance and capacity building resources for the program.
- Assess conditions to create market playbooks specific to resources, strategic partners and consultants in support of a technical assistance framework.
- Work in collaboration with the Impact and Evaluation team to build a program impact framework to evaluate and assess its progress, with the goal of measuring its impact helping to strengthen the ongoing Program strategies needed to support partner sustainability and growth.
- Manage the performance of the program through goal setting, ongoing assessment, reporting and communication.
- Lead the Partner Sustainability cross-organizational Steering Committee that has been formed to leverage Enterprises end to end platform and expertise in Solutions, Capital and Community Development to support the program design, implementation and evaluation.
- Work in coordination with Enterprise’s Policy team and other key internal and external partners and stakeholders to develop and mobilize a range of supportive activities and advocacy opportunities that promote solutions enabling the environment for organizational stability and growth for community development partners.
- Represent Enterprise in external meetings with housing, service, philanthropy, investors and other industry partners, as required.
- Work in partnership with SVP of Programs and Senior Director of Partner Sustainability and Growth to identify and cultivate program funding strategies with the Enterprise's Resource Development and Communications group to scale and sustain the Program.
- Co-manage program budget and compliance inclusive of resource allocation, disbursements, and reporting of the programmatic initiatives, with an eye towards funding compliance, and leveraging new and innovative funding streams and opportunities that become available.
- Experience working with and managing consultants highly desirable.
- Lived experience and/or service that informs worldviews and/or perspectives about creating opportunity across race, ethnicity, language, social class, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, and other dimensions are highly desired.
- Successful experience working independently and within a team setting; specific experience working in a hybrid setting with teams and colleagues located across multiple offices highly desired.
Enterprise Community Partners focuses on providing affordable housing solutions for families in need. The organization works by collaborating with various stakeholders, including government agencies, private sector partners, and community organizations, to develop and support initiatives that create and preserve affordable homes. Unlike many other nonprofits, Enterprise Community Partners emphasizes not just housing, but also the importance of community development, aiming to foster environments where families can thrive. The goal of the organization is to ensure that every family has access to a safe and stable home, which serves as a foundation for personal and community growth.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$33.1M
Headquarters
Columbia, South Carolina
Founded
1982
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growing interest in renter rewards programs presents collaboration opportunities for community engagement.
- ESG investing trends align with their mission, opening new funding opportunities.
- Investment in New York Mortgage Coalition shows commitment to addressing housing inequities.
What critics are saying
- Emerging competition in renter rewards market could divert partnerships and funding.
- Competitors' cash-back programs may challenge their affordable housing initiatives.
- Pressure to enhance technological offerings due to tech-driven solutions by startups.
What makes Enterprise Community Partners unique
- Enterprise Community Partners focuses on making homes accessible for underserved communities.
- They launched the Standby Guaranty Facility to aid developers of color in 2021.
- Partnerships with financial institutions like Fifth Third Bancorp enhance their housing initiatives.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
Mental Health Support
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Wellness Program
Tuition Reimbursement
Conference Attendance Budget
Company News
Aiming to compete with Bilt in the nascent property renter rewards market, Stake, a startup that provides cash back and banking services to renters, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RET Ventures’ new RET Ventures ESG Fund. Enterprise Community Partners, Hometeam Ventures, Operator Stack, Shadow Ventures, Olive Tree Ventures and Second Century Ventures, the investment arm of the National Association of Realtors, also participated, bringing Stake’s total raised to $17.9 million. Co-founder and CEO Rowland Hobbs says the new capital will be put toward expanding the platform and increasing Stake’s workforce from 17 employees to 23 by the end of the year
Last year, Enterprise also launched a credit enhancement tool called the Standby Guaranty Facility that’s meant to assist developers of color get access to capital that they otherwise wouldn’t get since they don’t meet traditional investor requirements.
Fifth Third is collaborating with Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit that exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one.
The New York Mortgage Coalition has received a $200,000 grant from Enterprise Community Partners to combat bias in-home appraisals and to help diversify the industry.
Blueprint 15 recently received a $1 million grant from Enterprise Community Partners, which distributes money won in settlements by the state Attorney General to community projects.